Hi Mark, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Mark Lentczner <m...@glyphic.com> wrote: > I think we're all in agreement that sync'ing against the calendars of other > distros that have similar calendar based releases is a good thing.
I agree absolutely, however, I am not sure that you will like the way releases are currently implemented for FreeBSD :-) One can find some information about the upcoming releases at the Release Engineering Information page [1], but usually they do not point that far advance in time. For example, currently 9.1 is being scheduled, and maybe it will appear around September or so -- but no one really knows that yet. On the other hand, ported applications are handled in a relatively flexible way, i.e. there is a few weeks of "ports freeze" (when no changes affecting large number of ports are allowed, e.g. updating GHC) at around each release (to let the ports management team build packages for the release), otherwise it is fine to update HP there. Obviously, users of releases will only get the latest committed version in the ports tree at the time when the release in question is prepared. But it is a common practice to update the ports tree and track updates continuously. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
